Sex links?

[ricky lafleur]

I'm in Australia

 

[ricky lafleur]

Update ,I think there was a humidity issue, 2 that didn't hatch were light color, so 5 light and 4 dark. The wings have different colour coming through now

 

[NatJ]

Update ,I think there was a humidity issue, 2 that didn't hatch were light color, so 5 light and 4 dark. The wings have different colour coming through now

Recessive white would turn all colors to white, so the chick would not show that much color. Putting that with how many chicks are dark vs. light, I'm pretty sure recessive white is not causing the light chicks.

So the white comes from Dominant White turning the black into white. And then both the black and the white chicks are showing some gold in their coloring.

At this point, I'm confident the dark vs. light is not useful for telling sex.

Since there are several chicks showing gold, it seems likely that the Black Australorp hen was also gold, but we won't know for sure until there's a gold male old enough to tell sex by other means (would prove the hen has gold), or until we find a chick with silver (would be male, and would prove the hen has silver).

 

[ricky lafleur]

Update, 1-3 are 8 weeks 4-7 are 7 weeks , any idea which are cockerels ?

 

[NatJ]

Update, 1-3 are 8 weeks 4-7 are 7 weeks , any idea which are cockerels ?

1, 2, and 6 are the ones that look male to me at this point.

The others could be pullets, or they could include some males that are developing more slowly than the others. Time will tell about that.

In the pictures of 2 and 3, I also see a head that looks male, in the bottom right corner. I'm assuming that is chick #1?

It's interesting to see what colors the chicks have now that they grew their feathers. That is not what I would have expected from a solid black mother, or from the appearance of some of the chicks when they were young. Chickens are full of surprises!

 

[ricky lafleur]

The bird below 2 is 1, the one below 3 is number 2